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Originally Posted by OBW
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So I return to the idea that the LRC desperately needs to keep Nee and Lee intact, at least as far as the insiders are concerned. They are too dependent on beliefs and practices that could not be supported if you removed the reason for saying James was just a Judaizer (among other things). That keep the entire upper structure of their hierarchy in place despite gross sin being covered up and even allowed to continue. (Remember, they were fighting against John Ingalls before PL was excommunicated. They did not want him removed.)
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Something to keep in mind is there's two sides to a coin. When John ultimately ceased meeting with the Church in Anaheim, I'm sure many would think why. Not many would ask why until years later. At the time the LC concept was God's move on the earth was through the local churches. Why would one of the principal leaders step aside. To give grace to John would leave question unanswered so Witness Lee and LSM had to create their own spin for consumption among the local churches.
Lee's ministry had to be kept intact. To expose he did not want to hear about his son running the LSM office. Same with LSM co-workers who were intimately aware of Phillip Lee's immoral behavior. Better to keep the system intact and throw brothers under the bus who had left the recovery movement by making his son a non-issue and making the brothers who left the issue.
Speaking about the Book of James, this book (along with Psalms and Proverbs) needs to be diminished in order to support the "upper structure of their hierarchy".
‘Now if a person sins after he hears a public adjuration to testify when he is a witness, whether he has seen or otherwise known, if he does not tell it, then he will bear his guilt. Or if a person touches any unclean thing, whether a carcass of an unclean beast or the carcass of unclean cattle or a carcass of unclean swarming things, though it is hidden from him and he is unclean, then he will be guilty. Or if he touches human uncleanness, of whatever sort his uncleanness may be with which he becomes unclean, and it is hidden from him, and then he comes to know it, he will be guilty. Or if a person swears thoughtlessly with his lips to do evil or to do good, in whatever matter a man may speak thoughtlessly with an oath, and it is hidden from him, and then he comes to know it, he will be guilty in one of these.
Leviticus 5:1-4
Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.
James 4:17